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About Jesicakes

A BFA Painting and Drawing graduate gone cookie designer and decorator. I bring my knowledge of art, composition, and color to pastries to create the perfect cookies and cakes for your events or occasions.

Friday, August 12, 2011

Welcome!

I have had the most wildly different aspirations for my life and my career. From curator of a major metropolitan museum, to painter, to marine biologist I changed my mind almost every week. One thing I always loved was baking. Throughout college I'd bake for parties and my friends would tell me that I should start my own bakery. I'd modestly laugh it off...baking was just a hobby...something I enjoyed. And over the past two years I started thinking to myself why should baking just be a hobby? So after graduating college I landed a job at Cookie Girl Bake Shop where I honed my baking skills and also learned to decorate specialty sugar cookies and cakes. While all of this was happening, I was advised to go gluten free because I have a medical condition called fibromyalgia. So now the question is how could I keep baking if I couldn't eat anything I made? That's when I began researching and discovering all the ways I could make gluten free desserts that taste just as great (if not better) than those with gluten. One of the things that has always driven me towards baking is that desserts are always a positive thing. No matter how bad of a day I'm having, I can have a chocolate chip cookie and all my troubles melt away if only for that one moment. So now I'm out on a mission to develop recipes, further learn to decorate, and turn baking into a career.

On this blog, you can expect to find recipes I try and even some I've developed myself. I'll also be posting photos of my decorating from work and home. I'll post reviews of new products I try on my journey to develop the best gluten free versions of desserts.